Kawanishi N1K-J Shiden

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-Kai (Allied name ‘George’) manufacturer’s number 5128, tail code A343-19 of the 343rd Kokutai, Imperial Japanese Navy, shipped to the United States after the war for evaluation as T2-N306 and now displayed indoors at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida: a single-seat land-based navy interceptor with a close-cowled Nakajima Homare radial and a four-blade propeller, a bubble-topped canopy, a low-set wing with four 20 mm cannon and rounded tips, and a tall rounded fin and rudder, shown tail down on its main wheels and tail wheel: dark green upper surfaces and fuselage sides with a black-green cowling over silver-grey undersides, yellow identification strips on the inner wing leading edges, a white-ringed red hinomaru on each side of the fuselage and plain red hinomaru above and below the wings, a yellow ‘A’ and ‘343-19’ on the fin and rudder, a red spinner and brown blades with yellow tips, as photographed at Pensacola (no Shiden is in a UK museum; shape from Nohara Shigeru’s N1K2-Ja three-view checked against photographs of 5128; the hand-painted tail code is approximated in a stencil face, and the small stencils, the rudder maintenance marking and the museum tags on the leg doors are left off). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 328 models · download .glb (1.2 MB) · Plate 160 in The Hangar